skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How quickly does the camera app start (worst case)? Because that is my main frustration with smartphone cameras.
I am such an arrogant person, so here's how to deal with me: let me have my
way, and gradually wean yourself off any projects involving me. Self-deluded
know-it-all's like myself do not rise within the ranks and get pigeonholed.
In the best possible case, we get fired, and that's what happened to me.
Still trying to figure out what to do with my life.
The Dangerous Evolution of the Coronavirus
usually quicker than i realize it is my thumb/hand or the case that is obstructing the lens.
On nights before a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep less, study shows
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> For those who disagree, how do you explain the very large number of people who spends tons of time and energy trying to get good at maths but fails to even grasp simple concepts like calculus?

Are there really a lot of these people? Everyone I know who is good at math likes it and spends a lot of time on it.

In school I was one of those kids who got it pretty easily. I skipped a year in math, I did my exams a year early, I won a math contest, and I went to top uni. But then I also went out of my way to buy extra math texts (not cheap for me) and had extra lessons to learn more stuff.

The kids who didn't do so well were the ones who just saw it as a bunch of riddles to be memorized. That works briefly for an exam or two, but if you don't pick up the ideas properly it gets pretty easy to run into a question that can't be answered.

> Contrast that with the much smaller but still considerable number of people who aren't really passionate about maths, don't put in the work yet still aces the class?

My brother told me he never saw me studying. This is true, why would I have him around when I was studying? I did a fair bit at night when he was asleep. Or I'd think about things on the train.

Also at uni there was a culture of pretending you made no effort but did well anyway. It was childish. Clearly people were studying, because there are very simple things you won't know in any other way, such as the names of concepts or people associated with them.
Well those things listening on the local network could also be exploited instead of the TV.

My Desktop/Laptop is supposed to be secured, and patched.
Otherwise open wifi access points would be a bad idea.

Personally I think the the idea that the LAN is some walled garden where it's fine to relax security is a bad idea.
Ask HN: What are effective ways to apply for coding jobs with a STEM degree?
For example, I'm currently a Chemist and I've learnt a decent amount of C++, Python and SQL, certainly enough to apply my knowledge. I have a few projects under my belt in C++ and Python, and an application that improved my current workplace's efficiency.

There seems to be very few Junior Developer Jobs in Ontario, Canada...
Currently I'm trying to email/PM people involved at the places I'm applying. Is this enough?

Has anyone else gone through this process, and are there ways to improve this kind of job search?
Not everyone shares your ideas about what the "best" and most "free" discussions are. Apparently, the crowd at this Discord channel were ok with calling each other gays, autists, retards, or whatever. It may not be the highbrow enough for some, but that is no reason to shutdown their community.
This often leads to local maxima where even the person who is optimizing for his own selfishness is losing overall.
> They definitely referred to themselves as autists/retards in a self-deprecating manner but that's hardly the same thing.

A self-deprecating slur can still be a slur.
i think a few years ago someone tried to get me to try some terminal app that was Electron based. not AS bad but still... barf.
If you’re into programs with Vim-like key bindings, I can wholeheartedly recommend Qutebrowser. Back when Firefox transitioned from the old extension system and Vimperator stopped working, I started using Qutebrowser instead. I stopped due to the lack of good ad blocking, but sorely miss the key bindings every day. Will give it a new try now!
I love airplanes and certainly would jump on the opportunity to fly a military jet.
What I cannot understand however is how people - lots of them Christians - can get so excited about firing a huge gun at other people...
that’s probably where the methodology used by trained historians is useful.

I created a History of Tech Design class [0] of 6 different tracks for design students. I’m not an historian, but I have some training in finding original sources, sorting them, accessing archives… it helped a lot, and I could use a lot of primary sources full of not-well-known details.

Back in the 90s it would have taken me weeks or months to just access this amount of historical material!

I had to turn this class into something accessible and interesting for design students / pros, but I certainly do not consider that dumbing down, just:
Know your audience!

[0] https://workflowy.com/s/strate-history-of-te/a4ID6kKtznLwQC7...
Why $GME hitting $5k a share isn’t a meme anymore. – by James P – Jan, 2021
Love using qutebrowser. Really an amazing opensource browser!
The only extension necessary for me was adblocking and now it's even better!

I did/continue to have issues with qt-webengine though, like 144hz monitor with qt webengine is limited to 60hz but these things are unrelated to qutebrowser.
In fact most of my "bugs" can be related to upstream qt webengine and wayland support. I feel bad for the authors of qutebrowser for so often getting issues that is actually an upstream bug in qt. It doesn't help that qt webengine work is rather slow (imo)

There's magic about pressing "o" and typing in what you want to search from history or Google which is so fast and efficient. I have tried similar setups on other browsers but in qutebrowser the search algos are so simple and snappy, it works great. My colleagues sometimes were amazed at how fast I could navigate across the browser all thanks to this great software

Thank you qutebrowser!
> The reality is that if the degree to which you value a stock is based on its PE ratio and other naïve but nice sounding metrics, then to be blunt you're no more sophisticated an investor than the people blowing their money on GME.

Or, the stock market is in a huge, 1929-style bubble and that's why the P/E numbers don't make sense. People don't want to even consider that though, because of what it'd do to their investments. Considering how many people have the money in the markets nowadays, this collective magical thinking can go on for some time. At some point though the value of the stock becomes detached from the actual company and its profits, and the stock becomes just a fiat token that people trade, like crypto.

BTW one scenario that can play out in the upcoming years is that the inflation finally catches up with the money printing, which increases the nominal profits of companies (as the dolar value of every product they sell increases), and the P/E numbers will again normalize. No idea how likely that is though.
Same here. It can also be controlled over http which opens up all sorts of home automation possibilities.
I think you're right, society is not homogeneous and language does evolve differently in different niches. Usually this can be observed in smaller groups, which have a strong pressure to "code switch" the dominant language of the society where they live. Minority group members do this all the time, all over the world; often there is a continuum of language/dialect/register that speakers navigate throughout their daily lives.

What's peculiar here is that american society has become polarized, on a rough 50/50% split, along certain cultural norms that affect a small part of language.

Members of group A will not easily concede "code switching" to the vocabulary that is ok for group B because group be is not clearly the majority dominant group.

In this case it's easy, since the word has alternatives, so a member of group A doesn't have to code switch to group-B-speak and say "retard" instead of "idiot".

Furthermore some vocal members of group A will demand that members of group B refrain from using that word on the same ground (there is an easy alternative).

You may be rightfully annoyed that group A is dictating something to you, dear group B member. A meager consolation is that there many minorities in the world that know how you feel (although some may not identify you as a minority since you're not; but that's beside the point, that's how it feels to be one).

Culture is complicated.

Where I live there is a big chunk of local culture that uses blasphemy as casual filler words. Other areas of the country, and a sizeable chunk of the same region, find that utterly repugnant and it cannot be used in polite speech (e.g. people are fired for saying "porco Dio" on television). Locals here just know it when it's ok to use it and when it's not a good idea. Some insist they should be free to stay whatever they want, and "porco Dio" they may well be right! A famous local nobel prize winner (Margherita Hack), when asked "do you use blasphemy in casual speech?" answered "sure, I'm from Tuscany!". I myself fit well in the that local culture.

That said, do I still talk like that when my 4yo child is around? No! I don't want him to talk like that until he can control himself and read the room! Is fixing this bug in the society (the rule against insulting the christian God) a hill I want to die on? Why should I? It's just a word, a fun habit, would it be rational for me to yell at people that I'm free to insult their gods because if freedom of speech or whatever? I'd be looked at as a crazy man because that's what I'd be.

To me people who cling their freedom to utter words that a significant portion of their fellow compatriots find offensive, look exactly like that. Picking a silly battle, and entrenching themselves.
"Self-Taylorism" is a great phrase that I'm going to have to remember.
Nice explanation from nytimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/gamestop-wall-st...
I'm actually more fascinated by the map than the murders. It's cool to see St Giles-in-the-Fields church actually in the middle of fields. And Spitalfields was The Spital Fields, again, actual fields. You can also see Bedlam, the asylum, near Bishopsgate.
Unstable helium adds a limit on the ongoing saga of the proton’s size
"See, the problem is that people are doing all this because they believe that it doesn’t matter. These are not idealists or indoctrinated revolutionaries.
No one is going to do anything if it’s not going to bring lulz or cash quickly because nothing matters anyway.

All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core."

I'm so happy we have mrtksn to explain the motives of about 5 million different people.

Thank you so much for enlightening us with your psycho-analysis of all those people.

We will try to be less nihilistic next time boss.
Canzuk – Could it be Britain′s new EU?
> I have a hard time believing that The number of liquid GME shares out there are nearly as low as 1%.

I believe the float is between 30-40%, hovering around 37%.
> No they just tell the travellers to keep travelling and they deny medical care because the little sod isn’t worth it to them.

In England anyone can get primary care and A&E care without charge.

> You do understand that socialized medicine refuses care to people who aren’t deemed to be “worth it”, don’t you?

Can you give any actual examples? I can't think of any in the UK. And I can think of plenty from the US.
Using the latest kitty release 0.19.3 vs. st, both already loaded:

~ >=> time st ls

real 0m0.048s
user 0m0.041s
sys 0m0.008s
~ >=> time kitty ls

real 0m0.239s
user 0m0.173s
sys 0m0.059s

If kitty isn't nicely cached it takes over 500ms on my machine.
Using your suggested flag it still takes twice as long.
Ask HN: Can you recommend me a good sales course?
This year, I want to improve my sale skill and I want to follow a sale course. Can you recommend me a good sales course?
Can't say if it's sarcasm or not. Straight from Fahrenheit 451?
I don't know what evidence i'd need to stop, but when I hear findings like this, I immediately think-- "yes, people with more problems (esp w self control) will smoke more."

But how to tell whether it is causing their problems?

And, what can we learn from outliers -- those who smoke and do very well?
Btw, Web Bluetooth is not only supported by Chrome, but also by Edge, Samsung Internet and others. More on supported browsers on https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20bluetooth

The source for the PM5 / Bluetooth integration is here: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/rowing-monitor/
You nailed it - statist democracy is having control over vast amounts of weapons, and forcing your way into the wallet of your neighbour, rather than competing and providing value to others.
Unfortunately the article does not explain how the study establishes causation.

>"Compared to non-users, regular cannabis users were more likely to engage in high-risk alcohol consumption, smoke tobacco, use other illicit drugs and not be in a relationship at age 35," Dr. Chan said.

That there is some correlation seems obvious and unsurprising. After all, if cannabis use is presented as somewhat risky in the media and by laws then only people who are comfortable with that risk, either by temperament or because they have little to lose, will use it.
Zuckerberg is creating a new criminal justice reform group backed with $350M
Thanks for the correction.

Terms of service are not above criticism, did not say it and did not imply it. I don't understand how you came to think that considering that in your previous post there is no criticism of discords TOS.

I was simply replaying to your statement that: "Discord reacted to how the platform they had already given was being used.". I don't understand why anyone would think that the owner of the platform should not be able to dictate the terms of use of their platform or react if those terms are not followed.
But then it wouldn't be able to do double duty as an Apple ad right?
Wow, "Fermat's library" is horrible to read in.

Luckily, the raw PDF is available at http://public.callutheran.edu/~reinhart/CSC521/Week3/KnuthVo...
How would you prevent a group from trolling or performing a hostile takeover of a small domain? How would someone acquire a domain? How do you determine consensus?

In this case, as someone who doesn't follow Perl, how would I make an informed decision on which perl.com domain I really want?
Fundamentally, generic screen sharing is going to involve running a video encoder live (because that's what you're doing - generating a video stream of your desktop). Something needs to do that work, and unless your GPU can it's going to be the CPU.

The only way around it that I know is a 'remote desktop' type protocol where you send drawing primitives to reconstruct the desktop on the other end. That is obviously a much more complicated thing to get working and is better for different use cases.
Are you concerned amazon will take your business?
Hibernate is ok technologically but it is a usability nightmare. However its reliance on reflection makes me want to stay away from it.
Line width is approximately equal to browser window width, so you can adjust the line width by resizing the browser window.
Technically GP could know that if they have insider info. But now I'm curious, if GP can't know they exited, how do you know they didn't? Sincerely asking.
> It does feel like a watershed moment regarding hedge funds

Let's wait six months. This story is being badly reported all over. I suspect the hedge funds will mostly be fine.

>You get people to invest in a stock that is expected by the industry to go belly up. Seriously. It's that easy. It's not illegal.

Yes, it is, it's an abusive short squeeze, which is market manipulation.
Americans calling people they don't like "communists" got to be the funniest thing ever....

"Fox news", "Rudy Giuliani", I mean... if you can't see the obvious political propaganda here I don't think we can find a middle ground. The same people who say "antifa" is an organised terrorism group but won't say anything about the capitol insurrection...
I agree with you. I also am having increasingly fewer faith in corporations making these requests for the security reasons they state. Facebook and their abuse of this data has really ruined it for me.
I won’t try to give a list of examples of how historical knowledge is useful for a developer, but just compare this statement with different fields:

An architect will learn about the history of hundreds of buildings at school.

A product designer like a designer designing chairs, knows about the history of chairs, has dozens of example of chairs in their mind.

That developers strive to be so a-historical is a sad state of affairs. It makes the whole field naive and stuck in a perpetual present.

But digital art and web design are in the same mode too, so it’s something about the whole digital fields.

The only exception is game design, where it’s considered important and valued to learn about old games, play them, understand how they worked.
Three Paper Thursday: Subverting Neural Networks via Adversarial Reprogramming
I love Qutebrowser. I just never had Netflix working on it (Linux Mint). So sadly I still use Firefox.

I hope this release fix what ever the DRM issue is !
Is this great analysis, or is this random paranoia?
It's not quite that easy. You have to find a stock that's overshorted (>100% of shares here) irresponsibly (if they used e.g puts they'd be fine), buy a lot and hold it long enough. Also quite likely WSB money wasnt enough and it's only because other hedge funds jumped in that we got here.

What Melvin did was risky and avoidable.
While the general idea that rich countries should help poorer ones has some merits, the idea that poor people in rich countries should be shafted in order to provide cheaper drugs for everybody else doesn't quite make sense to me.

I've heard the argument that Americans effectively subsidize drugs for everybody else. While it may be true, it still seems like a terrible situation to me, even as a non-american. There's got to be a fairer way to work this out.
I think the best approach is not to be apologetic about it, and just treat it as part of the job (which it is).

For instance, when you're talking about time/effort estimates, if you include the time it's going to take you to get onboarded with a new system, this is a sign you are more professional, not less.
Any way to use a password manager like 1Password with this?
The virus scanner on my work computer flags quotebrowser as malware and deletes it outright.
> Melvin Capital materially misrepresented about exiting their position

From what I've seen, this is very unclear. It all hinges on very specific phrasings down to "did they forget the plural s/did they edit it back in".
Works for me much better than CSS. HN sets font size to 10pt, any user setting is better than that.
When living in Trondheim, Norway I always had a chuckle going to the airport - the bus drove through the municipality of Hell, so I could quite accurately and without hyperbole claim that I had to go through hell to get wherever I was going.
> Wifi can do it to, but there you have to get into very hardware-specific wizardry

Android is supposed to support the standard for this called WiFi direct - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct#Mobile_devices. I've not seen much about it actually being used, though.

Apple has its own proprietary thing that it uses for Airdrop, which unfortunately is not cross-compatible.
Maybe I was imprecise to use the term legal.

By definition, WSB is controversial because a lot of powerful people criticise them and would prefer them not to exist. Legally, I can see that they're moving in an uncharted gray area that might eventually require lawyers and a judge to determine whether they did something illegal, or that eventually attracts lawmakers to adapt existing regulation.

I'm firmly on the side of WSB here though, and none of the above should be considered a moral rationale for its pre-emptive censorship. Controversial certainly doesn't mean wrong, of which one might have the impression after the last months of social media purges.

I'm not at all surprised that WSB becomes the focus of such a power struggle, and very much hope it becomes another catalyst towards de-centralized, censorship-proof online communities.
> So rules are only enforced when things are in the news?

Sure, punitive sanctions are more likely to be taken when the volume of complaints goes up, the trolling goes up and the forum ceases to be an insider's club and starts being representative of how your platform is perceived by the general public. That's been the case for every platform ever and particularly recently, with no conspiracies involving Wall St bribery required.

> That argument would make sense if the justification of the ban had been about legality, not use of language. If it's about use of language then it's not relevant.

It's an obvious retort to the suggestion Discord could have delayed enforcement action until after it blew over [if they weren't in cahoots with Wall St]. The only reason to delay when they're getting complaints now is to help one set of their users unload financial positions onto another, so keeping it open until that happens shouldn't be a consideration precisely because it's irrelevant to their stated reason for the ban.

(I mean, I'm sure Discord had internal discussions about the legal liability of [not] taking action whilst people pumped stocks too, but the answer was likely 'none whatsoever, do whatever you think is best for your reputation')
I don't see how Java Bean is a costly mistake. It's just a convention. It is annoying to follow but it doesn't cause damage directly.
Except everything they are doing is perfectly legal. They noticed some people had overextended their short position, they took action (action that "legitimate" traders were also taking) and stand to make some money.

I don't see how that is market manipulation any more than short sellers shorting over 100% of a stock.

Maybe there is an argument for regulation to prevent this but the financial sector has been staunchly against any such regulation for decades.
Pretty sure when krageon said "that's not what they said" they were referring to poster of the original comment that was being replied to - not the know it alls from 90s.
Should You Use TypeScript with React Native?(2021)
OOP is about code organization. Type dependent namespaces (also known as classes) are pretty much the core of OOP.
Social categorization of your feeds is now possible
I don't know exactly yet, but from what I'm now seeing it consumes 3-4% battery per day, with the dashboard updating every 30 minutes for 10 hours a day.

I'm only letting it update during office hours, so I reckon I should get around a month of battery life with this usage.
Martin Campbell-Kelly was my lecturer for "History of Computing" at Warwick University in 1986. Nice guy, and one of the few CS courses I actually enjoyed :-)